Occupation: Writer Birth: September 4, 1931 Death: June 2, 1987
"I seek the meaning of existence," said the stranger. "You are of course assuming," said the Master, "that existence has a meaning." "Doesn't it?" "W….
How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child..
You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story..
You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something..
You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying..
This is what Wisdom means: To be changed without the slightest effort on your part, to be transformed, believe it or not, merely by waking to the rea….
"That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master..
I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with them, and I ….
Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps..
The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked, "When you speak of….
When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brake….
When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live..
"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.".
What I really enjoy is not you; it's something that's greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered, a kind of symphony, a kind of….
A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece..
There is no explanation you can give that will explain away all the sufferings and evil and torture and destruction and hunger in the world! You'll n….
You see persons and things not as they are but as you are..
As you identify less and less with the “me”, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Do you know why? Because you are no longer ….
You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person..
The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself..
The seeker says, "I do not know." That takes honesty. The master says, "I do not know." That takes a mystic's mind that knows things through non-know….